King Elk Forest -- even if you were upside-down, i would be beside you

“It’s not too terribly far,” Mato speaks factual and gestures to the looming mountains that separate the Hinterlands from the rest of the Wilds that are but a ripple in the horizon from the King Elk Forest. “The Caldera is all but just over those mountains there.” Not too terribly far, no, but not exactly a trek he can afford to make regularly. Once Tindómë is officially formed it will be harder for him to get away. His trips will have to be few and far in-between and if they could prove to be beneficial to the pack than all the better; but he turns his thoughts from such things for the moment. He had made a promise that he will fulfill and Seabreeze has agreed to go with him. Though there is still the worry of Nova and if he should tell Sebastian about her or not — something, the druid thinks, to discuss with his sister at a later date. “We were close,” Mato admits with a nod. Past tense only because the distance between them makes it hard to keep that closeness and as Sebastian admitted he’s become something of a recluse. Mato had that moment himself for a few months: getting so lost in the stars that he could have withered and died ( became stardust ) and would not have been bothered ( but not in a depressive way; just in a way that he almost forgot that he could not live off of stars and air alone: that he was corporeal ). He merely needed something to remind him that he is explicably tethered to the earth: that he is her guardian. Seabreeze and Tindómë both work as excellent tethers to the corporeal realm. “it is harder to stay close now with the distance between us and busy with our own lives.” The empyrean admits but as far as he is aware: that is simply the fact of life for parents and their children.